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>> sean: one more corruption issue. what do you think charlie rangel does? do you agree that right now there's smoke filled room in washington and a deal is being cut so they don't go through the humiliation of a trial tomorrow? >> last thing they want, the last thing they can afford is a protracted public display of what charlie rangel's personal financials and ethical problems are. you is a deal -- you bet there is a deal going on. i don't know if he is going to cave or what they are going to slip in his drink to say yes. >> sean: don't they have to get republicans to sign on to this too? >>...

Had done anything like this, we would never have heard the end of it. "the new york times" and newsweek would have been busting him every time they had a publication, wasting taxpayer money and insensitive. i think president bush tried to be very sensitive after 9/11, not even playing golf any more. just because he didn't want the appearance he was out doing something frivolous. i don't be grudge the president playing an occasional round of golf. i begrudge him playing all the time and not being able to talk to 40 4th of july -- 45,000 boy scouts celebrating their jamboree. i wish he would tak...

Really unfortunate. >> they, of course, trying to discount the accusations that peter galbreth made. at the same time, you can sense a turn here. the administration at the white house is trying to get over it. they think they went too far on karzai. the allegations may be true, but he's their only -- >> but that doesn't make the frustration, that u.s. officials, on the ground, in kabul, really feel over this issue because they know the corruption issue is not just coming from the u.s. you have a great deal of afghan discontent about the corruption in that government and in order for the govern...

White house press secretary robert gibbs. what's one big issue lurking behind this, we write about this today is the corruption issue. ambassador eikenberry and others have been really hammering karzai to live up to his commitments, to crack down on corruption. there are a number of big cases in the pipeline right now and karzai is balking. he's getting a lot of political pressure not to move and as one u.s. official said, is caught in a vice on this issue. >> yet, over the weekend in a series of interviews, secretary gates and clinton took a much different line. here's what they had to say ab...

Afghanistan, so far this year, in the first two months of this year, january, february, 381. compared to the first two months of 2009, 85. michael o'hanlon of the brookings institution says this year could be very tough indeed. let's take a quick listen. >> the general notion that afghanistan in 2010 could be twice as deadly as it was in 2009 is not unreasonable. we could lose 500 or 600 people this year. we lost 300 last year. >> while he was at ball gram air field the president said the stakes are high in afghanistan. he said u.s. forces and coalition partners are fighting to restore things ...